Imperator Cancelled

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teh prophet hath spokaaaan!11

Camelot is all but dead. It may actually be the first big MMO to go under. The new servers are hopping right now, but I think nostalgia is getting the most of people.

And Imperator was a bad idea fromt he start, imho.

Its a shame, cause I actually like Mythic.

I played DAOC for over a year and leveled two characters to 50, so I am very familiar with the game and RvR. Mythic had a lot of great ideas, for one the PvP is 100x better than WoWs PvP(I have a 60 Rogue). You can start PvPing at level 1 and level up to 50 from pvping in the battlegrounds. They also release a lot of good content. ToA was a HUGE mistake though and it made it so after you hit 50 you still have a ton of crap to do.

All that aside, the man reason I quit and I never want to deal with Mythic again was their way of "balancing" classes. Instead of limiting damage a bit with little Nerfs or changing how abilities worked, you would wake up one fine morning and find out your character you spent forever leveling to 50 was now one of, if not the, shittiest class in the entire game. They did it to scouts, they did it to clerics, and assassins have also gotten the shaft.

Then 6 months to a year down the road after giving BS Pr responses saying the class was now "The way it was always meant to be" they would give you a little bit of a boost. I got off that rollercoaster, no thank you, I thought about reactivating my account for the Classic Servers but full me once........

nooooooooooooooooooooh !

I don't know how I feel about this. On one hand I was looking forward to something a little different. On the other hand I had a feeling that something like this would fail. Imperator was just too unknown to stand up to a game like WoW these days.

You know what really sucks? Look at those screenshots and think about all the art resources they made. I hope they can use some of that stuff for Warhammer...

Hmm....

http://wallpapers.boolsite.net/srv11/Images/Wallpapers/JeuxVideos/Unreal2003/UT2003-03.jpg

http://www.shacknews.com/images/image-o-matic.x?imperator/ss04_HadesPrime01.jpg

Yeah, heaven forbid we have something other than another fantasy MMO.

Bah! It was just a flimsy Warhammer 40k wannabe anyway.

"The fundamental flaw in the Xenos is that they cannot love the Emperor."

"An open mind is house with it's gates unbarred and ungaurded."

"Da red ones go fasta"

I played this game at E3, and I am gonna have to agree with the choice to cancel. Although I don't know how far it was into development, it felt too much like DAoC in space to make me think that this was a different game.

Hell even the jumping animation was the same as it is in DAoC.

Too bad, I liked the idea of a neo-roman imperial sci fi game.

Is there any info out there on the Warhammer MMORPG? That sounds interesting. Fantasy or 40k?

These guys have limited resources like any dev. They are also pretty smart guys, they know the more projects you juggle at the same time, the harder quality becomes to maintain.

Imperator is their own brand that no one knows about or has fondness for. Along comes the Warhammer license(score) and now they have a viable IP.

So back to the limited resources, management has to pick two titles to concentrate on:

DAoC: Proven winner
Warhammer License: Good recognition, solid license
Imperator: Unknown

The choice is easy.

Interesting concept but I saw it coming as well. Hell, I was surprised DAOC ever made it to retail.

Fuck. I loved the idea behind the story :(

The first thing I uttered when I read the headline about Imperator was:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo
It cant be true.

IMOH I thought the premise behind Imperator was flakey. The Romans and Myans??. Come on. I was still looking forward to the game though. A new sci-fi MMORPG title.

I dropped SWG for a multitude of reasons.

Guess I'll have to wait for Star Trek. Huxley is a no brainer I will definitely give it a spin even though its a Planetside like game but w/out a doubt has more to offer in terms of content and graphics.

Camelot would probably be the best MMO out there and have more pf a population than EQ to this day if they had done 3 things:

- Put a heavy emphasis on population balance between the 3 realms

- Never released the pve nightmare that is Trials of Atlantis and made the items in it a neccessity in RvR

- Not favored Albion so much from the get go with regard to balance, the creative talent burned themselves out creating the realm and classes with all the camelot lore...

Of course, not putting the word Camelot on the box might have helped the population balance a bit.

Shame

Based on this screenshot: http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/imperator/Imperator/1/thumbs/ss04_HadesPrime01.jpg

It appears to me that they won't have much work to modify them over to be Warhammer characters...

Wish more companies would have internal reviews and axe some projects before they ever saw the shelf.

So this guy is saying the team is so wonderful, but they can't make a good game?

Why not just admit he wants to put resources on MMORPGs only, or that they didn't have enough money, or that they missed the tech window or whatever it was.

IMO, they were WoW'd.

/clap Mythic

Good decision - Imperator without any PvP Aspect and a strange storyline construction with Romans in Space fighting Mayans just was a bit off the charter. Warhammer has a great universe and Dark Age of Camelot ist still an attractive MMO for players who want a komplex MMO that doesn't end when you have reached max. level with a superb, always competetive PVP System.

Putting Manpower into Warhammer will be greatly needed as many many many fans have been waiting for a company to make a great MMO out of this licence and its well-defined universe. It has already been dumped in between, Mythic Entertainment is a company that will handle this universe with the needed respekt and know-how.

Go Mythic

The graphics engine is just awful for this game. Models, textures, everything bland. Could have been interesting, but bleh : ( Needs more character please.

Good thing, the game didn't seem to have any kind of real theme. The architecture looked bland as hell, not Roman at all, the armor and weapons looked like any other sci-fi game, and why the hell was the enemy SPACE MAYANS?

Smart move mythic.

Warhammer 40k mmo would be much more fun.

I know a few upper echelon Mythic employees who post elsewhere and just days ago they were speaking about making the trip to Europe to establish a server farm and publishing house over there specifically for Imperator.

Few of them got big promotions when they moved to the Imperator team too.

I don't think many of them saw this coming.

Ack.

I actually thought the idea of space romans was pretty silly.

Warhammer sounds much cooler. As long as it doesn't follow the gameplay rules.

This game was canceled they day they bought the warhammer license. Maintaining DAoC, developing exp packs for DAoC, imperator, and Warhammer is much too ambitious for Mythic.

I liked the idea for this game, but I saw this coming.

maarten you broke the shack :(